[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] safe lzo decompression should be used

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sat Apr 15 06:50:20 CEST 2006


On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:00:50PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:44 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > > [-- Attachment #2: smime.p7s --]
> > > [-- Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature, Encoding: base64, Size: 3.7K --]
> > 
> > Is there any chance we can configure the mailing lists to strip this
> > nonsense? smime attachments add about 4k to each email that includes
> > one. On a list with thousands of emails per year, this adds up to
> > significant additional storage. IMO the issue is the same as text vs
> > html. The mailing list should only accept plain text.
> 
> I apologise sincerely. You're probably right that certificates do not
> belong on a mailing list. I will see if I can suppress it for mailing
> lists automatically.

No worry, I wasn't particularly flaming you. I just know that if this
smime stuff becomes more popular it will massively bloat my mail
archive. 180 bytes for pgp signature is not so bad, but this stupid
smime thing is 4k and, looking at the data, it seems to mostly be
advertisements for the company who issued the key, or something like
that..

Rich




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